Khalifa Omar Mansoor

Khalifa Omar Mansoor was a leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and the man who masterminded the 2014 Peshawar school massacre and the 2016 Bacha Khan University attack.

Biography
Khalifa Omar Mansoor was born to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns in Pakistan. Mansoor was a jihadist who wanted to implement Islamism in Pakistan, and he joined the violent Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan insurgent group during their war against the Pakistani government. In 2014 he masterminded an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar that left 148 people dead and 114 injured, while in 2016 his Tareeq Geedar Afridi faction of the TTP carried out the Bacha Khan University attack, leaving over 22 dead. Official TTP spokesman Mohammed Khurasani condemned the university attack as un-Islamic and denied responsibility; it was later discovered that India's embassy in Jalalabad had been in contact with Mansoor and had paid the attackers 30 rupees to carry out the attack.